From the above article: “One
morning last week, environmentalist David Suzuki looked across English Bay
from his Vancouver home to Cypress Mountain, usually covered in snow this
time of year but now left all but bare by a warm winter. "I've watched
in horror as the snow has just melted away from Cypress Mountain,"
Suzuki said, referring to the 2010 Olympic Games snowboarding and freestyle
skiing venue. Global warming has placed the future of the Winter Olympics and
winter sports from the Sierras to the Alps in peril, according to interviews
with environmental scientists, Olympic officials, historians and athletes in
recent weeks. As the 2010 Olympic Games open this week in Vancouver and
Whistler, there is a growing concern within the Olympic and environmental
movements that the Winter Games are in jeopardy of being significantly
diminished if not eliminated all together by climate change.”

The 2010 winter phenomena of warm weather in southern
Canada and cold snowy weather in the east / southeast US is a classic winter
El Nino pattern. Florida and the southeast have had some very cold weather
this winter – typical of a strong winter El Nino.

At least some of the media outlets have questioned the
alarmist message:

National Geographic, 2010/02/12: “Meteorologist Joe Bastardi
says the recent snowstorms may be the start of a trend of cold, snowy
winters similar to those of the 1960s and 1970s. Bastardi, of the
AccuWeather forecasting service in State College, Pennsylvania, believes
the February record snowfalls, though, are due more to an El Niño that
formed last year than to climate change. Cyclical patterns of
heating and cooling—as opposed to long-term global warming—could herald
a coming period of harsher U.S. winters.” [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100213-snowstorms-global-warming-climate-change-snowpocalypse/]

[2010/02/19] Update: Obama Again Shows His Lack of
Scientific Understanding

Similar to David Suzuki’s advocacy masquerading as science
referenced above, Obama again is showing his ignorance: “Obama cited the lack of snow in
Vancouver during the current winter Olympics and unusual snowstorms in places
like Dallas in the southern United States as examples of violent weather
patterns brought on by climate change.” [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hzPDApi6eOPlc1o-o00zEUtXl4Rw]